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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Medical supplies actually probably are a really good application for that. Traditional polymers to wrap the palette, cardboard to wrap the disposables, and then bamboo plastic to wrap the disposables themselves. Since those actually have fairly strict storage requirements once they get off the truck.

Just a question of if that is cost effective to have multiple types of plastic at the factory.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most biodegradable polymers are water-permeable (water intrusion is how bacteria get inside the material to break it down). Anything water-permeable is not appropriate for medical use, even as a wrapper for something else, because you can't guarantee that the thing inside is sterile.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

And there you go